Senior Engineer · Creative Technologist — Mönchengladbach, Germany
From founding a game studio at thirteen to securing cloud infrastructure for Germany’s power grid — a decade of building things that ship. Available for CTO, solutions engineering, project leadership, and senior fullstack roles.
CTO · Project Lead · Solutions Engineer · Fullstack Developer
01/Where I deliver
I’m not casting a wide net — these are the seats I’ve actually held, with the receipts to match.
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Fractional CTO/CIO across four companies simultaneously — translating founder vision into shipped software, architecture, hiring, and roadmap.
02
Scrum and Kanban delivery across multiple client teams at adesso SE — requirements to production, on time, with stakeholders aligned.
03
Client-facing consulting at Germany’s leading IT consultancy — speaking both languages: executive business and hands-on engineering.
04
React, Next.js, TypeScript on the front; Spring Boot, Node and AWS behind. 46 technologies shipped to production, not tutorials.
02/The person
Fabian Faraz Farid built and shipped his first commercial game at thirteen. By the time his peers finished school he had founded a studio, led a team of developers and artists, and served as CTO for multiple companies at the same time.
A decade of compounding experience produced something rare: an engineer who genuinely understands product, design, business, and infrastructure simultaneously. Not in theory — in production, under deadline, with real users on the other end.
Years in consulting at adesso SE building Angular and Spring Boot systems for enterprise clients. Then Soptim AG, where he leads frontend architecture and serves as AWS Cloud Security Officer for energy management software that keeps German supply chains running.
03/Craft
Most engineers pick a lane. A decade across product, infrastructure, and creative work built something broader.
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Pixel-precise interfaces in React, Next.js, Angular, and Vue. Performance-obsessed, animation-first. The kind of frontend that makes engineers at other companies ask how it was built.
02
Custom LLM integrations, RAG pipelines, OpenAI and Gemini APIs, workflow automation. Automation that removes human bottlenecks and earns back its infrastructure cost.
03
Whiteboard to production platform. Spring Boot and Node services, scalable data models, and API design developers actually enjoy consuming.
04
AWS Cloud Security Officer for critical energy infrastructure. Compliance frameworks, threat modelling, and hardening for regulated industries where failure is not an option.
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Unity and Unreal game development, Blender 3D, WebGL with Three.js, motion design. For when standard interfaces are not enough.
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Technical co-founder at four companies. Translating founder vision into shipped software, building teams, and surviving every stage from MVP to scale.
04/The arsenal
Not a list of things read about once — every tool below has been used to deliver work that went to production.
React
Next.js
TypeScript
JavaScript
HTML
CSS
Tailwind CSS
Three.js
Angular
Electron
Vue.js
Blazor
MongoDB
Firebase
Strapi
Contentful
Java
Spring Boot
C#
MySQL
Sanity
PHP
Git
AWS
Docker
Azure
OpenAI
Gemini
Make
Python
PyTorch
Unity
Unreal Engine
Figma
Photoshop
Premiere Pro
Illustrator
After Effects
Blender
Shopify
Shopify Liquid
Google Ads
Google Business
Mailchimp
Meta
TikTok05/Every chapter
From a teenage game studio to enterprise cloud security — the complete, unabridged record.
Sep 2024 — Present
Soptim AGPresent
Led development of mission-critical energy management software running across Germany’s power grid infrastructure, and served as designated AWS Cloud Security Officer.
Sep 2022 — Sep 2024
GuiderEngineered content delivery infrastructure for a fast-growing knowledge platform, enabling editorial teams to publish at scale.
Mar 2024 — May 2024
Demtek GmbHContracted to deliver high-stakes Vue.js applications for Germany’s industrial elite. Joined mid-sprint and shipped production code with effectively zero ramp-up.
Oct 2021 — Mar 2024
adesso SEJoined one of Germany’s leading IT consultancies and became a go-to full-stack developer, taking on technical lead responsibilities within eighteen months.
Nov 2021 — Dec 2023
Kirrvn · Avec Amxur · All Hers Official · The Driving TeacherRan technology and growth as fractional CTO/CIO across four independent SME brands at once, each in a different vertical: Kirrvn (home apparel & décor), Avec Amxur (jewelry), All Hers Official (cosmetics, Egypt), and The Driving Teacher (driving school). Sole technical advisor to each founder, from infrastructure to acquisition.
Jul 2020 — Oct 2020
Heinrich-Heine-UniversitätContracted at the height of COVID-19 to deliver pandemic response infrastructure for one of Germany’s largest research universities. Requirements to production in under six weeks.
Apr 2020 — Jul 2020
Comet Cine CenterSole architect and developer of a full cinema management platform built on Domain-Driven Design, taken from whiteboard to production.
May 2015 — May 2019
Nova Game StudiosFounded at thirteen years old. Led a team of developers and artists to design, build, and ship a commercial game. The origin of everything that followed.
06/Selected work
Three products running in production right now — each one solving a problem I actually had, not a tutorial rebuilt with a new coat of paint.
07/What they say
“He delivered in six weeks what a team of four engineers had failed to ship in six months. It completely changed our trajectory.”
“He thinks like a CTO, codes like a senior engineer, and communicates like a founder. Genuinely rare.”
“The AI integration Fabian built saves us five figures a month. Not marketing talk — verified numbers.”
08/Ready?
I’m actively looking for my next role — CTO, solutions engineering, project leadership, or senior fullstack. If yours should be it, send a short message. I reply within 24 hours.